6.6 miles - Sentry Road out-and-back June 16, 2007 8:30 am. |
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Deming Scores First Triumph Of The Year
Hannibal Makes It Nine Trips To Winner’s Circle
Chris Deming, 40, who recently placed second in the second annual Human Race around the Danbury Fair Mall, scored his first victory of the season in the Roxbury Road Race Series Saturday, June 16, with a time of 43-minutes, 9-seconds over a new 6.6-mile course.
Deming outran Mark LoSacco, 38, who placed second in 43:25 on the layout, which went along part of Judds Bridge Road to the end of Sentry Hill Road and back.
Jenna Hannibal, 29, a former Shepaug Valley High School athlete who now teaches at Whisconier Middle School in Brookfield, placed first in the women’s division for the ninth time this season in the weekly series.
She took eighth overall in 47:47:44 on the rolling course.
The weekly series will continue Saturday, June 23, at 8:30 a.m. with a 4.3-mile race that will include a trip up the hill on High Bridge Road. There will be no entry fee.
A 5.0-mile race will be held Saturday, June 30, at 8:30 a.m. There also will be no entry fee.
That same course will be run Saturday, July 7, at 8:30 a.m. during the William Burley MidSummer Championship.
The race is named after the founding director of the 31-year-old series, who was a longtime Roxbury resident and a principal at two New Milford elementary schools.
There will be a $5 entry fee that can be paid that morning from 7:15 to 8:20. Proceeds will go to the Roxbury park improvement fund. The top overall male and female finisher will each receive a $10 gift certificate to a local running store.
The second round of inductees to the Roxbury Road Race Series Hall of Fame will be announced that day at the post-race awards ceremony.
The weekly runs, which are sponsored by the Roxbury Recreation Commission, start and finish near the Everett Hurlburt Community Park on West Apple Lane.
For information on the series, contact Head Director Bob Lewis at (H) (860) 355-0695 or Assistant Director Scott Benjamin at BenjaminS@wcsu.edu, (O) (860) 210-2146, ext. 129 or (H) (860) 354-3521.
Safety
Safety is important to us, as we don't run on closed roads and generally like each other.
It is safest if we face traffic as much as possible. Also, it is safer if we are all on the same side of the road, instead of making traffic drive between runners. (You know who you are.)
Fossil has three rules of running:
Be safe
Have fun
It's more fun if you run well
Be nice to the drivers. For the most part, they like us, and they are proud to have us running in Roxbury. Smile, and, if you wave, be sure you use all five fingers.
This week's pictures
Up top on the right we have this week's winner for the women, Eunice Bussom, from a race last year.
Below that we have a crowd scene from the start, featuring Lou Denaro in the foreground, with a lot of people you might recognize in the background.
Along side the results we have Lynnie Zuback and Sinnead Blevio smiling, with Ron Karl behaving himself in the background. Where's Sinnead been this year? Then there's a shot of Mark Zerbe in his red vest. Then we have brightly colored Brian Vanderheiden and Mark LoSacco. Near the bottom of the column, a shot of Fast Mario Hasz and his wife Diane, the Belle of the Finish Line.
Down at the bottom, we have three women smiling after the race, Fossil meeting a dragon in Germany, and a collection of three sets of feet.
The Roxbury Races are now listed on the Internet both on RunningInTheUSA and on HiTekRacing.com
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Created June 22, 2007
